WooCommerce Shortcodes

Usage Guide

WooCommerce WordPress plugin comes with several shortcodes that can be used to insert content inside posts and pages. See here a list of the WooCommerce shortcodes.

WooCommerce is a widely used free e-commerce/store plugin for WordPress. It comes with various shortcodes that can be used to customize your online store such as the interface, checkout functionality, product listing etc. In this article, I made a complete list of all the WooCommerce shortcodes and their usage so new/advanced users can take full benefits from WooCommerce.

WooCommerce Shortcodes for Pages

WooCommerce Shortcodes Usage Guide

When you first install WordPress it automatically creates 4 pages that are required to run your store – Shop, Cart, Checkout, and My Account. These pages have shortcodes that WooCommerce includes from its core. So if WooCommerce couldn’t create a page for some reason or you accidentally deleted it, you can recreate it with the proper shortcode and specify in the settings.

Shop

Shop page is your store page. It showcases all of your WooCommerce products and presents to your visitors. Currently, there is no shortcode to customize the content of this page. WooCommerce can automatically detect when the shop page is loading and list your products accordingly.

Please add the ‘[‘ and ‘]’ characters on before and after the WooCommerce shortcodes to make it work.

Cart

WooCommerce creates a Cart page for its shopping cart functionality. This is the cart shortcode:

woocommerce_cart

The cart shortcode does not accept any additional parameter/argument. It shows the content of the shopping cart such as item details, coupon codes, shipping, taxes etc.

Checkout

Check out page provides the checkout functionality for your customers. This is the WooCommerce shortcode for the checkout page:

woocommerce_checkout

The checkout shortcode does not accept any additional parameter/argument. It shows all the information which will be collected from a user during checkout such as billing info, shipping info, payment method etc.

My Account

My Account page shows a dashboard to the logged-in customers. This is the WooCommerce shortcode for the My Account page:

woocommerce_my_account

A customer can view their past orders, downloads, and update their personal details such as billing info, shipping info, account password from the My Account page.

Order Tracking Form

Order Tracking Form page is not created automatically by default. This is an optional page that you can manually create to let a customer check the status of an order. This is the WooCommerce shortcode for the Order Tracking Form page:

woocommerce_order_tracking

In order to see the status of an order, the customer needs to enter their order details in the Order Tracking Form.

More WooCommerce Shortcodes

WooCommerce Shortcodes Usage Guide

There are some WooCommerce shortcodes which can be used anywhere you want.

Recent Products

You can use this WooCommerce shortcode to list a set of recent products.

recent_products per_page="12" columns="4"

You determine how many products to show on the page with the “per_page” attribute. The “columns” attribute can be used to control how many columns wide the products should be before wrapping.

Featured Products

You can use this WooCommerce shortcode to display products that have been set as “featured” in WooCommerce.

featured_products per_page="12" columns="4"

Product

This WooCommerce shortcode allows you to show a single product by ID or SKU.

[product id="99"

[product sku="FOO"

In order to find the ID of a product, you can hover over that particular product in the WooCommerce Products menu.

Products

This WooCommerce shortcode allows you to show multiple products by ID or SKU.

products ids="1, 2, 3, 4, 5"

products skus="foo, bar, baz"

Add to Cart

This WooCommerce shortcode shows the price and adds to cart button of a single product by ID.

add_to_cart id="99"

Add to Cart URL

This WooCommerce shortcode prints the URL on the add to cart button of a single product by ID.

add_to_cart_url id="99"

Product Category

This WooCommerce shortcode shows multiple products of a category by the slug.

product_category category="appliances"

You can find the slug of a particular category under WooCommerce > Products > Categories.

Product Categories

This WooCommerce shortcode can display multiple product categories in a loop.

product_categories number="12" ids="2, 6, 7, 10"

You can use the number parameter to display the number of products, and the ids field (containing comma-separated list of category IDs) to choose which categories to display.

There is also the parent parameter that you can set to 0 to only display the top level categories.

product_categories number="12" parent="0"

In order to find the ID of a category, go to the Product Categories screen and hover over the category. The ID appears in the URL.

Product Page

This WooCommerce shortcode shows the full product page of a WooCommerce product by ID or SKU.

product_page id="99"

product_page sku="FOO"

Sale Products

This WooCommerce shortcode showcases all of your products that are on sale.

sale_products per_page="12" columns="4"

Best-Selling Products

This WooCommerce shortcode showcases all of your best-selling products.

best_selling_products per_page="12" columns="4"

Related Products

This WooCommerce shortcode lists all of your related products.

related_products per_page="12" columns="4"

Top-Rated Products

This WooCommerce shortcode showcases all of your top-rated products.

top_rated_products per_page="12" columns="4"

Product Attribute

This WooCommerce shortcode lists products by attributes.

product_attribute attribute="color" filter="black"

Product Sorting

You can use the “orderby” or “order” parameter to sort shortcodes that simply display multiple products or multiple products of a category. The “orderby” parameter can accept one of these values:

menu_order

title

date

rand

id

The “order” parameter can accept one of these values:

asc

desc

For example This shortcode will sort 3 products (with SKUs foo, bar and baz) by date in descending order:

products skus="foo, bar, baz" orderby="date" order="desc"

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